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CANNES 2017 Market / France

Announcements by Memento, MK2, Charades, StudioCanal and SND

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- CANNES 2017: The Cannes Film Market gets off to a flying start with Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Asghar Farhadi, Corneliu Porumboiu, Mamoru Hosoda, Marjane Satrapi and Mikhaël Hers

Announcements by Memento, MK2, Charades, StudioCanal and SND
Directors Nuri Bilge Ceylan (© Paul Blind), Asghar Farhadi and Corneliu Porumboiu (© Paul Blind)

On the first day of the Film Market at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, under the radiant sun and in a high-security environment, French international sales agents have already made a number of announcements.

Memento Films (see news line-up) started strong by kicking off the pre-sales of The Wild Pear Tree [+see also:
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by Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Palme d'Or 2014 for Winter Sleep [+see also:
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) and of the new film (still untitled) by Iran's Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past [+see also:
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, The Salesman [+see also:
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), which the French company is producing with Spain's Morena Films, Italy's Lucky Red and France 3 Cinéma. The first clapperboard is scheduled to slam in August in Spain, and it stars Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin.

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MK2 Films International (news) announced the arrival of Gomera on its line-up, the upcoming film by Romania's Corneliu Porumboiu (The Treasure [+see also:
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), which will be produced by Paris-based companies Les Films du Worso and Rouge International, along with Spain's Apaches. Its first announcements also included the feature film Jessica Forever [+see also:
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by French duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (news) and Amanda [+see also:
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by their compatriot Mikhaël Hers (staring Vincent Lacoste and Stacy Martin).

Charades, the very young international sales agent founded by Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte and Pierre Mazars, began the pre-sales of Mirai, the new animated film by Japan's Mamoru Hosoda (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, The Boy and the Beast).

StudioCanal kick-started the pre-sales of Radioactive [+see also:
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by Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis [+see also:
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, Chicken With Plums [+see also:
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), which is said to be toplined by the UK's Rosamund Pike. An adaptation by Jack Thorne of the book Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by the USA's Lauren Redniss, the film will be produced by the UK's Working Title and is fully financed by StudioCanal. The French company also announced the start of the filming of Yardie [+see also:
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, the first feature film by English actor Idris Elba, which is centred around a young Jamaican who arrives in London in the early 1980s and by chance finds the man who killed his beloved brother a decade ago in Jamaica. The cast of this production by Warp Films (financed by StudioCanal, the BFI, BBC Films and Screen Yorkshire) includes Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham and the director himself.

SND launched the pre-sales of the animated film Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion [+see also:
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by duo Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier, which will be produced in France by M6 Films with delivery slated for the winter of 2018. One must note that SND's line-up this year includes a film that will be screened in the Directors' Fortnight (Just To Be Sure [+see also:
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by Carine Tardieu) and that pre-sales have also begun for Normandie nue [+see also:
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by Philippe Le Guay.

Wild Bunch has also announced the sale of My Son [+see also:
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 by Christian Carion for North America to Cohen Media Group and the acquisition of Ismael's Ghosts [+see also:
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by Arnaud Desplechin - which will open the 70th Cannes Film Festival today - by Arrow Films for the UK.

Finally, TF1 Studio announced the sale of Remi, Nobody's Boy [+see also:
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 by Antoine Blossier for Italy to Leone Film Group.

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(Translated from French)

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